Betty
#87
[Direct Edition]
(July 2000)
Archie,
1992 Series
- Price
- 1.99 USD; 2.19 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Archie Comic Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Comics
- Barcode
- 762816467537 08711
- Editing
- Victor Gorelick (editor); Richard H. Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Betty / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Stan Goldberg (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Smith (signed)
- Colors
- Barry Grossman
- Letters
- Bill Yoshida
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Betty is so old fashioned!
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Moose Mason; Jughead Jones; unidentified extras
- Synopsis
- While everybody else is using cell phones, Betty sticks to the old land lines.
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Clown Frown
Betty / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Betty's experience working as "Betzo The Clown" at birthday parties to earn extra money serves her when Archie takes her to the circus and the circus clowns accidentally scare the tots in the audience.
- Reprints
-
in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #209 (August 2010) - in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #300 (August 2019)
- in Archie 1000 Page Comics Jubilee (Archie, 2019 series) (2019)
-
- Keywords
- clowns
[no title indexed]
Fan Art / illustration / 1 page
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Fan submitted drawings of Betty are reproduced.
Indexer Notes
Fan art by Erika Meraz, Michelle Benegas, Ryesha Kanani, and Kyle Marie Smith.
Absent Mind Over Matter
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
- Synopsis
- At cheerleader practice, Veronica can tell when Betty is daydreaming of Archie.
Big Bass Blowout or She Went Fishing For Compliments, Part 1
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Hal Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Mary Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- Betty offers to substitute for an under-the-weather Jughead so Archie can stay entered in the Loon Lake Bass Tournament. Veronica gets wind of it and offers to partner with Reggie so she can keep an eye on them. And a man dressed as a viking steals the Riverdale Ruby from the Museum of Natural History.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #209 (August 2010)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #310 (July 2020)
-
Big Bass Blowout or It Was on a Large Scale, Part 2
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle; Leon The Chameleon (villain)
- Synopsis
- Reggie and Veronica interfere with Archie's casting, forcing him to move to a spot near the highway bridge. There he and Betty stumble onto the stashed loot from the Museum heist.
- Reprints
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #209 (August 2010)
- in Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (Archie, 2011 series) #310 (July 2020)
-
[no title indexed]
Dear Betty / letters page / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I have a lot of friends
- Characters
- Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- "Betty" answers reader letters.
The Dilemma
Betty / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Nancy Woods; Adam; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Pop Tate
- Synopsis
- Nancy points out to Betty that a handsome new student named Adam has a crush on her. She advises Betty that if Archie can date more than one girl, she can date more than one guy. And Betty begins to consider it.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
At the end on the story, a survey ballot is printed asking readers if Betty should date Archie, Adam, both or neither.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Betty is so old fashioned!"]
Betty -
1.
Clown Frown
Betty -
2.
[no title indexed]
Fan Art -
3.
Absent Mind Over Matter
Betty and Veronica -
4.
Big Bass Blowout or She Went Fishing For Compliments, Part 1
Betty -
5.
["The Countdown To Archie #500"]
Editor's Notebook -
6.
Big Bass Blowout or It Was on a Large Scale, Part 2
Betty -
7.
["I have a lot of friends"]
Dear Betty -
8.
The Dilemma
Betty
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Peter Croome
- Igor Dybzinski
- Katy Hayhurst
- Thomas Johnson
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
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